Faculty Publications, 2000-2006
History

Erik Gellman, Ph.D.

"'Carthage Must Be Destroyed': Race, City Politics and the Campaign to Integrate Chicago Transportation Employment, 1929-1943," Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2 (Summer 2005): 81-114.

"Owen Whitfield and the Gospel of the Working Class in New Deal America, 1936-1946," co- author with Jarod Roll, Journal of Southern History, LXXII (May 2006.): 303-348.

Encyclopedia entries:

Twenty-five entries for The Encyclopedia of Chicago History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

Two entries in Enyclopedia of Labor and Working-Class History, 3 vols., ed. Eric Arnesen (New York and London:  Routledge, forthcoming 2007).

Dan Headrick, Ph.D.

The Planet Machine, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

The Earth and Its Peoples, third edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

“Telecomunicazioni e potere: Il ruolo della trasmissione delle informzioni nella politica e nell'economia fra Orrochento e Novecento” in Memoria e Ricerca no. 5 (January-June 2000).

“Apogeo, crisi, declino e fine dei sistemi coloniali: verso nuove forme di relazioni e di interdipendenza” in Eredità del Novecento. Rome: Istituto della Encicopedia Italiana, 2001.

“Submarine Telegraph Cables: Business and Politics, 1838-1939.” Business History Review 75 (Autumn 2001): 543-78.

Margaret Rung, Ph.D.

Servants of the State: Managing Democracy and Diversity in the Federal Workforce, 1933-1953, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2002.

“Reweaving the History of American Reform: Historians, Progressivism, and the New Deal” part one, in Latvijas Vesture. Jaunie un Jaunakie Laiki, 43 (September 2001), no. 3: 82-90 and part two, 47 (September 2002), no 3: 58-64.

Encyclopedia Entries and Reviews:

“Agricultural Adjustment Administration”; “American Federation of Government Employees”; “National Federation of Federal Employees”; “Personnel Management”; “United Government Employees”; “United Public Workers of America/United Federal Workers of America”; “United States Employment Service” in Enyclopedia of Labor and Working-Class History, 3 vols., ed. Eric Arnesen (New York and London:  Routledge, forthcoming 2007).

Co-author, “The New Deal,” in The World Book Encyclopedia, 22 vols., (Chicago:  World Book, Inc.), forthcoming.

“City Beautiful Movement,” The American Midwest: An Interpretative Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton,  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2006.

Book Review of Carol Knepper, ed. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War (New York:  Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004) in The History Teacher, vol. 39, no. 1 (November 2005):  124-25.

Review of John Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002) in American Historical Review, vol. 108, no. 4 (Oct. 2003): 1181-82.

Review of Robert Cohen, ed. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002) in The History Teacher, vol. 37, no.1 (Nov. 2003): 124-25.

Lynn Weiner, Ph.D.

Lynn Y. Weiner and Ronald D. Tallman, “The Popular Iconography of FDR,” pp. 9-18, in Nancy Beck Young, et al, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Popular Culture, The M.E. Sharpe Library of Franklin D. Roosevelt Studies. Armonk and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Article reprint: “Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America.” Journal of American History, 1994, reprinted in Fass & Mason, eds., Childhood in America, NYU Press, 2000.

Encyclopedia Entries and Reviews:

Review of  Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty  (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005), forthcoming in The History Teacher, 2006.

Review of Tupperware! , American Experience PBS documentary (2004) in Journal of American History  (December 2005):1107-1108.   

“La Leche League,” in Paul Fass, ed., History of Childhood (Macmillan, 2004).

“Work Culture,” “Roosevelt University” “La Leche League,” in Encyclopedia of Chicago History, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
 
Review of Dorothy Sue Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004) Women and Social Movements in the U.S., website,  Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2004. 

"Baby Food," in Andrew Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2004).

“Memorials,” in Beasley & Schulman, eds., The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia. (Greenwood, 2001).

Review of Jane H. Hunter, How Young Ladies Become Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (Yale, 2002) in The History Teacher, 2004.

Review of William W. Cutler III, Parents and Schools: The 150-year Struggle for Control in American Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) in History of Education Quarterly, Winter 2001.

Review of Jessica Weiss, To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change (University of Chicago Press, 2000) in Journal of American History (June 2001): 276-77.

Review of Dennis A. Deslippe, Rights, Not Roses: Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80 (University of Illinois Press, 2000) in Annals of Iowa, (Winter 2001): 80-81.

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